The thrill of traversing uncharted territories, the rush of exploring the unexplored and the joy of stumbling upon hidden ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a tectonically active region with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning 40,000 km around the Pacific Ocean, making it highly geologically hazardous.

Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones Evidence from Earth’s deep past suggests dramatic subduction zones can spread like a contagion ...

Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

Located 100-200 kilometres off the Pacific coast of North America, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a convergent (tectonic) plate boundary capable of producing 9.0+ magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis ...

Earthquakes happen along several fault lines in the Bay Area. The most infamous of these, the San Andreas fault line, runs through the San Francisco peninsula and was responsible for an estimated ...